Edmond, OK rail crossings

Summary

Metro	OKC metro
Railroads	BNSF
Open at-grade crossings	12
Vehicles a day crossing tracks at grade	75,116
Busiest crossing in the model	W Danforth Rd (012063N): 20,164 vehicles/day, 17 trains/day
Funding	1 award on record (see below)
Data source	FRA Crossing Inventory, retrieved Oct 2, 2026

Time

$3.51M

162,546 person-hours a year

Trade

5,388

truck-hours a year, worth $192K in driver time

Pollution

274 t

CO₂ from 30,158 gallons idled, like 59 cars for a year

Based on 53 hours and 15 minutes of blockage at one Main St intersection in six weeks of 2018, about 76 minutes a day.

Each blockage lasts 30 min

Blockages per crossing per week 7 times

Blockages modeled per crossing per year	364
Vehicles stopped by one blockage	1,195
Trucks stopped by one blockage	59
Person-hours lost per year	162,546
Value of lost time per year	$3.51M
Truck-hours idled per year	5,388
Gallons of fuel idled per year	30,158
CO₂ per year (metric tons)	274

Screening estimate. Each selected crossing is blocked for the set time; drivers wait half of it on average. Method and sources

Crossing	USDOT ID	Vehicles/day	Count year	Trains/day	Trucks
W Danforth Rd	012063N	20,164	n/a	17	5%
W 15th St	012071F	19,964	n/a	18	4%
W 33rd St	012072M	17,251	n/a	18	6%

Uncheck a crossing to remove it from the scenario. "~" truck shares use the city's traffic-weighted average where the inventory reports none.

Edmond has 11 crossings in city limits, and a stopped train will typically block five to seven of them.
Southwest Ledger · Dec 23, 2022 ↗
Between June 25 and Aug 5, 2018, trains blocked a Main St intersection for a total of 53 hours and 15 minutes.
Southwest Ledger · Dec 23, 2022 ↗
Edmond's fines for blocked crossings were struck down when the 10th Circuit ruled state limits preempted (BNSF v. City of Edmond).
Justia · Jan 11, 2022 ↗
Funding Included in the FY2024 RCE study of 52 corridor crossings ($400,000).
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